Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-22
SATURDAY OCTOBER %, 1887.
Mnhone's Measures.

Nirginia--all OF them white, we sup
pose, for we take it that MALONE carries
the negro vote in his pockets-seem not
to know what duty requires OF them.
They futter like n cat-bird in the pres
ence of a black snake and as nobody
can tell certainly whether the snake can
or cannot "charm the bird which in
its presence hops from limb TO limb and
from the tree to the earth, so nobody
can tell certainly whether MALONE has
or has not charmed these anti-MAHoNE
Republicans who utter such doleful
cries and hop from limb to limb and
from the tree to the earth. They de-
clare most cmphatically that they will
not support MALONE for second term
in the United States Senate, and at the
very same moment they avow it to be
their purpose to vote for candidates
for the Legislature who they know will
vote for him.
We have looked to the two Yosrs in
Staunton to lead the forces of the real
Republicans against those of that bogus
Republican MALONE We have watched
their course with interest, and inter
preted such utterances as the following
TO mean that come what might, they
would vote for no MALONE man. The
TaHcy Irginim recently said:
"He Malone knows and his parti-
san adherents know that he could not
carry single white county in the State
upon his openly-announced candidacy
for the United States Senate"
1--WE would regard it as a positive
injury to the Republican party of Vir
ginia and to the Republican party OF
the nation for him to be again invested
with that high Office. And the only
way that he could he elected would be
through caucus binding Republicans
10 vote for him, who might believe that
they would be intlicting a death-blow
10 the party in Virginia to do So"
How could this language be under
stood to mean anything else than that
the YosIs would never consent to aid in
re-electing man to the United States
Senate who could not carry single
white county that they would refuse
to infIct positive injury upon tho
Republican party of Virginia and the
nation that they would vote for no
candidate who would 60 into a MALONE
caucus, and thus deal a death blow to
the patty in Virginia.
But this is not what the Messrs. YosT
propose TO DO. On the contrary, they
declare III the last issue of their paper
we haven't copy Of 1t before US a.
We vIiie, but We are sure that We are
not mistak,n-tlat they intend to sup
po1t candidates for the Legislature
without asking these candidates whether
they will go into the MALONE caucus
trap or not In other words, they are
. going to DO all that i'll their power lies
TO return to the United States Senate
the man whose election to that body
would inhict death blow upon the Re
publican party in Virginia.
We call attention to this matter by
WAY OF warning the Democrats of Nir-
GINA TO believe nobody who says that
the next Legislature, if Republican,
will not rc-elect MALONE to the United
States Senate. He knows what he is
doing. The malcontents are as no
thing in his hands. He will carry out
his schemes, and he will be nominated
for re- election by the Republican eau
Gus, and every anti Mahoneite will deem
and plead that as an all-sulficient rea-
SOD for going over to his standard.
And what would he not do? Look
where he stood ten years ago. and look
where he stands now. Think Of his
running in Virginia in 1880 a Read
ulster ticket for President of the United
States, became he was such good
Democrat that he couldn't support
GABYIRLD, and then think OF his pro
fessed double-dyed Repubhcanism OF
today. Next think Of the devilish
schemes he tried pass through his Lee
eislature a few years ago, and imagine,
if you can, to what hornd proportions
those schemes have grown by this
time. lie is match for Beast
Btr1KR in unscrupulousness. There
is pothing that he would hesitate e
do provided it promised to minister L
bis selfish greed Of place and power
Have YOU forgotten what kind Of judge
lie tt up in some counties ?-how h
lnopC 81 d 20 lcgslate the circuit Judge
Gu, Of ofice aud fill the temple o
justice with bis paTtlsaus ?-to taxi
away the charters Of cities, and substi
tute others under which he could govern
them bimsclf?-to dismiss true, tried
aud faithful policemen, and substitute
bis tools?--to have commissioners o
sales to carry out his plans at the ex
ptnse Of the owners Of all the rea
estate sold under DEGREES Of courts 2
10 establish MALONE organs to DO sup
ported by tax OF 5 cents per lin
levied upon the advertisements OF lii
sales Of that real estate?
And do not forget how he treate,
yirginis's institutions OF learning, anC
her asylums, and all OF her other in
stitutions. Where would your publ
schools DO to-day if the people OF Viz
giDia bad not in 1888 expressed il
thunder tones their indignation be
cause Of the appointment of nogr'
trustees TO supervise the white schools
OF this city?
NAHosE's measures? What are
these? You may well hope never To
lnow-but he will never elect another
Legislature, and therefore will never
have occasion 10 show his hand again